#21 good to be back

Season 3 of 6-to-8 Podcast is full force and running!The host Hangling sits down here, to share what makes this season incredibly personal, special, and deeply human.In celebration of the richness and grandness of human experience and stories.

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Close your eye for a moment. Imagine such an amorphous bubbles, take every form you wish, all in its fullness - vibrant colors, glistening glow in oneness - unveiling before you, just like dandelion seeds setting fly, around all different shapes and forms. That is today's guest, Alex's, 6-to-8, where his footsteps and bubbles, tread through Boston's corners, from the waterfront to the Atlantic shore, the winding Charles River nexus of the green oasis esplanade deck, to the historic streets of Cambridge MIT square. Children playing.Adults sticked to phone screen stop walking.People with picnic blanket chattering. Looking up, seeing the ways they move and touch people. The last time you played as a child? I remember over a year ago, coming across Alex beautiful bubbles by the seafront, I found myself back to childhood. The way they evoke awe and wonder, with a deep sense of possibilities.It felt like everything is possible. And you paint the canvas. The world, is like a big discovery comic wonder. In all its wonder shape and form. In this episode, our guest Alex took us back first to where it first started - the time abroad in that Spain public square, to being back like an alchemist through SoupMaker Wiki refining the recipe, to the first time making bubble at the parking lot, then debuting to the world as a bubbler.Each journey of the way, there is much to be discover. Alex find himself understanding and becoming in merging in one with the process. How it all reveals about himself, life, the big ideas and themes in between - impermanence, randomness, evanescent beauty, focal lens of discovery on what is there and what has been there, to crystal ball of present and future.

The music that saved one during one of the most difficult and vulnerable times. The fentanyl detection kit startup that saves lives, co-founded by a mother and a son, with the bond of mother-to-son, brother-to-brother. This is the thread of today's episode, with our guest Alec Leddon, a startup co-founder by day, and a music producer and DJ by his "6-to-8".In this episode, Alec Leddon unwraps the thread and dives into the stories of his world of music production. Colorado raised and NYC based, Alec is a music producer/artist with over 10 years of classical piano training and 7 years of music production experience. With the stage name Lil' Rocketman, Alec created a distinct style of music which spans across many genres. Some of these include Phonk, old school hip hop, EDM, bedroom rock, trap, bass music, and much more. There is the deep, therapeutic power of music, unleashing and transporting emotions with that artistic flow into artistry, in ways that connect and relate to others. There is also a sense of purpose—finding his voice, tapping deeper into that craft, touring in Europe and performing with his best friends in Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona and London.Alec also connects the music thread with the deep mission cause he is driving towards through meaning. About 5 years ago, Alec's younger brother passed away after unknowingly taking a street drug laced with fentanyl. Since then, his mom and he have committed themselves to creating the first ever all-in-one convenient fentanyl drug testing device so other people don't have to go through the same loss they experienced. Alec is leading and growing the startup TaeSun, a public health startup that has raised over $450K and secured a federal grant to address the fentanyl overdose crisis.Tune in to hear about Alec's "6-to-8" journey and the stories in-between the "9-to-5"! You can find out more about Alec through his personal music production and Taesun below.Instrgram: lil_rocketmanhttps://www.lilrocketmanofficial.com/https://taesunkit.net/https://entrepreneurship.babson.edu/sud-sprint-innovation/

I always wonder what my first episode being back would look like.I have tried doing this different times: be it in that visible change-in-season sultry afternoon of the last day of summer, or the feeling of fall with that chill in the air; be it in the room, parking lot, on my run, I find myself time and time again thinking back. But none felt like they did it justice.There is something about creating. Not until I started the podcast did I realize the line from a writing that I really liked.The author was trying to capture his beloved school as a visiting scholar, but always felt a sense of uneasiness: fear in his incapability to capture the essence of the place; fear of not doing it justice.Well, podcasting is instant, and it is dynamic. Unlike writing, you could not simply stop at a point and come back over and over again. It is a time stamp in history, forever captured. When you are recording an episode yourself, even with the same central idea, the episode yesterday could look different than the one you do today.I think this is also what draws me in with podcasting. It is a conversation, a monologue, a time stamp in time.The senses and sensibilities, all captured, at the moment.It feels like a flow. It feels like an inspiration state, that feels higher and immensely opening to yourself.The sense of vast openness, stillness, focus, and flow is very hard to describe in words.All the emotions, awe, wonder steep in, as I am surrounded by this place I always cherish dearly,The public garden, how I have seen and trod throughSpring, summer, fall, and winter,The stone bridges, the wooden deck,I have seen the tree branches with leaves bursting with the sense of green,I have seen the crab apples blooming vibrantly with that dear color of pink,I have picked up white tree stems from the ground after the rainstorm in the chill air,I have sat comfortably by the swan boat wooden deck bathed under the warm setting sun, ducks side by side greeting their way,I have laid under the lush green grasses with a sketchbook by my side,I have gone cloud gazing and befriended strangers, talking about philosophy and mindfulness,I have stumbled across fellow tree lovers investigating different trees,I have gained special friendship on that snowy day by the commons, then spent the whole day together treading, sharing stories, seeing cute dogs, ice hockey players, little birds by the snowy shrubs,I have stepped out with courage doing karaoke and gazing up at the wondrous willow tree and bridge on that sunny day,I have seen the tulips, roses, all sorts of flowers blooming in the garden,I have heard all different instruments performing - saxophones, erhu, guitar, more and more,I have witnessed many proposals, wedding pictures, gender reveals, picnics, proms, and special occasions around the common,I have also seen how beautiful at night the reflections of the sparkling city lights in the layering waves of the pond are.I have absolutely cherished this very special place in my heart,And in dedication to this special fall afternoon,Feeling that urge to carry the kit to the sun-bathed lawn on the hillside of the public garden,With the stone bridge on my right, the beautiful vibrant fall colors of the trees,Colors standing out with shades of red, green, orange, yellow, all the in-betweens,Bathing under the warm setting sun,With the gentle soft crisp wind caressing the face,Glistening ripples setting in motion by the pond,A few geese picking seedlings from the lush green grasses,People sitting in pockets,And me,Sitting there,Soaking it all in,With such a sense of respect, awe, wonder,And fountains of inspiration,This is where the beginning of this season,Captured in all the fall fullness,Evanescent beauty,Stamped in time,The feelings,All in their oneness,Wrapped.And now it is from here,To the world.Peace and love,HanglingOct 26, Sunday, 8:48 PM

[March 2023] College seniors hopping on a spontaneous episode about the lessons Pouya has learned over the four transformative years of college, chat about humanities, human nature, holding on to one’s power of imagination, and what it means to be a human :)

happy new year and hangling is back with an episode about grounding, confidence, and bird...

A catch up episode that explores the stories we told and are told by, where the raw, intimate truth may be buried deep underneath the "common" narratives. 

What does music mean to you? From the lens of the composer, crafting a piece of music can convey or represent many things, such as architecting an immersive space. This is what our guest today, Carlos, turns to during both his “6-to-8” as well as “9-to-5”. Carlos Meyers is a composer and conductor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His style is self described as neo-romantic, while often incorporating minimalist and spectralist influence. He established himself at a relatively young age as a creative and driven musician, with his pieces receiving several performances and awards in his hometown of Milwaukee, WI. Carlos is currently studying Music Composition (BM) with Concentrations in Conducting and Music Theory at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Check out Carlos’s work via his portfolio https://www.carlosmeyersmusic.com/ and Carlos could be reached at [email protected]

Happy 2022! Today is also the eve for Lunar New Year, which will be the year of Tiger. This is a special episode dedicated to the new year as well as an archive throwback to NYC trip during the fall break!